MICROANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Capillaries are delicate blood vessels that exist throughout your body. They transport blood, nutrients and oxygen to cells in your organs and body systems. Capillaries are the smallest blood vessels in your vascular system.

Detailed explanation-2: -The smallest type of blood vessel. A capillary connects an arteriole (small artery) to a venule (small vein) to form a network of blood vessels in almost all parts of the body.

Detailed explanation-3: -What are blood vessels? Blood vessels are channels that carry blood throughout your body. They form a closed loop, like a circuit, that begins and ends at your heart. Together, the heart vessels and blood vessels form your circulatory system.

Detailed explanation-4: -Continuous capillaries. These are the most common types of capillaries. Fenestrated capillaries. Fenestrated capillaries are “leakier” than continuous capillaries. Sinusoid capillaries.